1818 - 1826 FRANKENSTEIN REVIEW SANDWICH ISLANDS CHEROKEE REPORTS MAINE LAW +

Description: [029193] (Americana - Literary History - The Port Folio - Misson Reports - State of Maine Judiciary – Joseph Story). 1818 – 1826 Bound in One: 1818 Port Folio Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Review; 1825 & 1826 American Foreign Missions: Native America, Sandwich Islands…; 1825 1st Report American Sunday School U.; 1820 Portland ME 1st Session Grand Jury Address By Joseph Story. Group of bound material includes: The Port Folio. A Monthly Journal. Conducted by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Vol. VI. July-December, 1818. Philadelphia: Published by H. Hall, J. Maxwell, Printer. 472 pages; with useful index. Edited by John Elihu Hall from 1816 - 1827, this monthly periodical was considered the foremost American literary publication of its kind, with reviews, poetry, essays on various topics, world and domestic news, travel, scientific discoveries and speculations, law & politics, biographies and obituaries. The September issue, pages 200 – 207 contains a disparaging review of ‘Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus’ by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; the unnamed critic begins by comparing the story of Frankenstein with William Godwin’s ‘Mandeville’ as being ‘of the same family and race’ and less than impressed with the ‘ghost story’Illustrations include title-page “Embellishments” for each month: The Kalmia Latifolia (colored, with part of folding panel torn away); the Monument to General Montgomery; Fort Ticonderoga; Anthony Benezet’s House in Philadelphia; Fac-simile of Dr. Johnson’s Writing and a View of the Falls at Gill on the Connecticut River. Also interspersed with the texts of some of the issues (and making the collation a bit confusing) are separately-paginated continuations of lengthy articles from the Appendix of this journal. Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; compiled from Documents Laid Before the Board, at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting… Boston: Printed for the Board by Crocker and Brewster 1825. 112 pages. With the lists of societies, officers, board members and contributors, monetary reports and the establishment and ongoing conditions of missions. Reports from various locales in Bombay & Ceylon, news of the efforts to publish tracts in native languages, educate the young and teach reading; notice is given of the careers of those employed in the mission works and their progress. Also, with similar reports of domestic U.S. missionary work among the Cherokee at several stations, with news of each, in West Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas, including translations of the New Testament, and some ‘retrograde’ movement: “…When novelty is past, natural indolence is apt to prevail. Parents have no government, and will not insist on a child’s going to school longer than he pleases. In addition to these causes, the prevalence of a new mode of writing, which has lately sprung up among themselves, withdraws their minds from learning English…A form of alphabetical writing, invented by a Cherokee named George Guess, who does not speak English…is attracting great notice among the people generally…young Cherokees travel a great distance to be instructed in this easy method of reading and writing. In three days they are able to commence letter-writing, and return home to their native villages prepared to teach others…” Similar news comes with reports on the various missions to the Choctaws, in the states of Mississippi and Alabama, a Mr. Byington having taught himself the language of that people in order to preach. “…Great obstacles are interposed to the civilization of the Indians by the vicious habits of many of their chiefs. They are peculiarly exposed to the enormous evil of intemperate drinking…The present situation of the Indians is in a high degree critical…” In addition to their labors in spreading the Christian religion, there is reportage of crops grown, schools built, travel itineraries, biographical and genealogical data on the tribe’s members as well as for the missionaries and support staffs, medical personnel and other occupations. The mission report from the Sandwich Islands (P. 65- 79) gives news of the Hawaiian royalty, relations with the missionaries and events of importance – burning of a mission church & its rebuilding, death of the governor, numbers of converts of chiefs, children, adults; and from Waimea, in the Island of Tauai (Kauai) “…The labors of this mission were interrupted by an insurrection, promoted by George, son of the late king of Tauai…not pleased, however, with the will, which his father had made; and was disposed to obtain, by the fortune of war, what he considered as his patrimonial inheritance. On the 8th of August, he attacked the fort of Waimea, and was repulsed…” With the deaths of prominent chiefs and queens on the islands and their biographical details, and the reluctance of some of these to embrace the ways of the missionaries. The report with shorter notices of missions in Palestine, Malta, Beyrout (Beirut), Jerusalem and in South America. Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; compiled from Documents Laid Before the Board, at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting… Boston: Printed for the Board by Crocker and Brewster 1826. 136 pages; with similar news detailed as the above; notable is the report on the visit of British naval officer George Anson Byron at Hawaii (returning the King & Queen after their deaths of disease in Britain) and the operations of the printing press there. The First Report of the American Sunday School Union: Read at their Annual Meeting, Held in the City of Philadelphia, On Tuesday Evening, May 24, 1825. Philadelphia: Printed for the American Sunday School Union, by J. Ashmead & Co. 1825. 108 pages. With reports from around the U.S. as well as bits from Canada, the West Indies, Polynesia, Australasia and other locations. At back is a catalogue of tracts for sale with bibliographic data including their pricing, at a rate of one dollar for twelve hundred pages. A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of the United States, at its first session in Portland, for the Judicial District of Maine, May 8, 1820, And Published at the Unanimous Request of the Grand Jury and of the Bar. By the Hon. Joseph Story. Portland: Printed by A. Shirley. 1820. 21 pages. The RBH listing for this item quotes the Midland Notes catalogue No. 27 from 1946: “…Judge Story seized upon the opportunity of making his first address to a U.S. Grand Jury in the State of Maine to deliver an inspired attack upon slavery.” Joseph Story (1779 - 1845) U.S. Supreme Court justice, legal scholar, law professor, and congressman, was "...not content to be only a justice, a banker, a university trustee, an adviser to politicians, and a part-time lobbyist with Congress. Story’s boundless energy led him to two other parallel careers, which alone would have made him a major figure in American legal history. While serving on the bench, Story was also the nation’s most important and prolific legal scholar and the major professor at Harvard Law School, where he helped train a generation of new lawyers...His publications became the basis for many private law libraries…In his writings, even more than in his court opinions, Story shaped the development of American law..." (Paul Finkelman in the ANB) Volume approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" size; bound in paper covered boards, later polished calf spine & corners, gilt spine titles and simple line-rules in a contemporary style. Some edge & tips wear to the binding; some foxing and spotting; in very good condition.

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